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PublisherRoutledge

ISBN-101594516456

ISBN-139781594516450

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Number of Pages264 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameRace of Time : a Charles Lemert Reader

SubjectSociology / General, Globalization, History & Surveys / Modern

Publication Year2009

TypeTextbook

AuthorSamuel Han, Daniel Chaffee

Subject AreaPhilosophy, Political Science, Social Science

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight0 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2009-025498

ReviewsThere is no question that Charles Lemert is sociology's greatest working social theorist and that with this new reader his place in the sociological canon he has worked ... to interpret and expand will most certainly be assured. He will always be sociology's greatest unnamed novelist, making accessible ... the often forgotten history of this discipline we all share.

Number of Volumes1 vol.

Table Of Content1. Critical Introduction Daniel Chaffee and Sam Han; 2. "Reading" Lemert Anthony Elliott; 3. Rethinking Social Knowledge; Suburbs and Steppenwolf; Cultural Multiplexity and Religious Polytheism; Sociological Theory and the Relativistic Paradigm; 4. Social Things; Sociology as Theories of Lost Worlds"; Durkheim's Ghosts in the Culture of Sociologies; 5. Critical Sociology; Sociology: Prometheus among the Sciences of Man"; The Uses of French Structuralism: Rethinking Vietnam"; Against capital-s Sociology"; 6. Dark Thoughts; Dreaming in the Dark, November 26, 1997; Race of Time; 7. Unlikely Social Thinkers; Unreasonable Differences: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Logic of the; Feminist Standpoint"; The Colored Woman's Office: Anna Julia Cooper, 1892; Celebrity, Tricks and Culture; 8. Ethics and Identity; If there is a Global WE, Might we all be Dispossessed?; Whose We? Dark Thoughts of the Universal Self, 1998; Can Worlds be Changed? Ethics and the Multicultural Dream; 9. Globalized Worlds; Dispossession and Overcoming Nostalgia; Surviving the New Individualism; 10. Intellectual Memoir: Social Theory and Contemporary Politics Charles Lemert.

SynopsisCharles Lemert is one of the most renowned critics of social theory and theorists today. The editors of this book have offered and contextualised many of his best essays and situated them against the backdrop of American sociology. The breadth of Lemert's work doesn't stop at an academic engagement with theoretical debates such as 'globalisation' or 'postmodernism, ' but cuts right to the heart of abiding social issues. His work is focused and continues to probe pressing questions such as the rise of vulnerabilities in an era of new capitalism. By weaving together personal narrative, research, lucid explanations, and a dynamic engagement with social theory of old and new, his unique prose renders accessible complex theoretical debates, Charles Lemert is one of the most renowned critics of social theory and theorists today. The editors of this book have offered and contextualised many of his best essays and situated them against the backdrop of American sociology. The breadth of Lemert's work doesn't stop at an academic engagement with theoretical debates such as 'globalisation' or 'postmodernism,' but cuts right to the heart of abiding social issues. His work is focused and continues to probe pressing questions such as the rise of vulnerabilities in an era of new capitalism. By weaving together personal narrative, research, lucid explanations, and a dynamic engagement with social theory of old and new, his unique prose renders accessible complex theoretical debates., A selection of writings from renowned social theorist Charles Lemert, which situates his best essays against the backdrop of American sociology.

LC Classification NumberHM585.R33 2009